Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:41:31 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <hornback@wireco.net>, <chat@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) Message-ID: <001201c0ad1a$f875d280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <15024.1640.544526.101490@guru.mired.org>
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Yes, this is yet another reminder of how damaging Windows has been to the market. The current Intel CPU's are tremendously retarded by the PC architecture, and the reason the PC architecture survives is because of the Microsoft near-monopoly. If Windows had never held more than, say 40% of the market, we would have tons more computational power today and PC architecure woudl be a dim memory. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] >Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 4:02 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: hornback@wireco.net; chat@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: Now a little OT but RE: FreeBSD and Linux (More Questions!) > > >[Redirected from -questions.] > >Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> types: >> >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Andrew C. >> > This is what they want the PC to be once the IA-64 hits mainstream. >> >Which basically means that when the Itanium gets out there and into >> >the hands of more than the technophiles, nearly everything that we >> >have now is going to be obsolete. >> I really doubt it. I think your going to see the motherboard and CPU >> change but it will still go into the same case, take the same >peripherals, >> and same ram, and all that. Probably it will spawn a lot of >hand-wringing >> about how the "rest of the system" is holding back the power of the >> IA-64. > >Which sounds like it will parallel the x86 line growing up. The best >line I remember from that era was something like "The x86 performs >very well in a well-designed platform. Now, if only you could buy an >x86 architecture other than IBM-PC clones off the shelf." > > <mike >-- >Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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